Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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City of Kings
The city of York and the Crown were...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Life Speeds Up
It was becoming easier for people to...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- King Richard III and York
- King Edward I and York
- The Yorkshire Museum Moa
- The Assembly Rooms
- The Horn of Ulf
- Trams Pulled by Horses
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- St William's Shrine
- Bathurst House 86, Micklegate
- Anglian Hanging Bowl
- Medieval Prisons
- Stonegate
- Micklegate Bar
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- The New Theatre
- The Cawood Sword
- Mithras and Arimanius
- York's Airfield